Ya, I noticed that, but figured it was a typo.

I have Azure services all over the world, no one has complained, and Azure shows no outage or health event. I mean, if no clients complained, how widespread could it be? Maybe it was very brief, so we all missed it, BUT, it would explain why ProtonMail disconnected my external account around 2:30pm EDT.

What stops Microsoft from locking down Office? Nothing, absolutely nothing. What stops LibreOffice, OpenOffice, OnlyOffice, from locking down? Nothing, but, you can fork the project and continue on. That's an enormous deal because, it means you're never stuck if things go sideways.

Look at Windows 11, how many times has Microsoft handicapped that OS? From locking out local accounts on set up, through to enabling bad encryption, forcing TPM, Secure Boot, Recall, Edge restrictions, you name it, it's abusive, hurts users, Microsoft probably did it.

I didn't mind XP, but Vista, Vista used to give me headaches, and back then I had just "bad" vision.

Liquid Glass? Unless the previews were trash, I would call it Liquid Fog, it's a mess of haze and a new level of inability to read content. Ignoring my personal feelings from the previews, how is this going to work with accessibility? I have vision issues, I'm legally blind, which in Canada means I have 20/200 uncorrected vision, I would be unable, even with corrective lenses, which can get me up to 20/40 in one eye, and I think 20/50 in the other, to use that interface. If someone with moderate vision issues, once corrected, can't use your interface, your interface sucks!

You could assume the comma is doing the right job, I could assume the comma is doing the appropriate job, but, if they wanted to make it exceptionally clear, beyond any personal understanding, they could have written it differently. I read a metric butt load of policy documentation, it's seldom written clearly, and usually very poorly. You should never have to argue about the intention of a statement, based on grammar, and if you do, it's not written properly.

It can, except you also have to do a plain reading, and the plain reading, I think, is what is getting them into trouble.

I know my family can reduce our grocery costs, I'm not blind to that, but, I can't reduce it as much as I should be able to. You can fairly argue I don't need "sanitization wipes", Lysol, although I get Great Value. Likewise, you could argue I don't need premium eggs, and the costs come down, but, if I was going full on budget mode, the $425 mark, is really it.

I'm in my late 30s, but when I was in my teens, 20-years-ago, I remember getting weekly groceries with my father for under $150! We had a family of 5, didn't budget shop, didn't go without, never had the "no-name" / "no-brand" food. How can anyone honestly defend, in 20-years, prices going up by a factor of 4?

Housing, dear lord. We own our house, and we're very lucky, but I have friends who rent, and they've seen 30% increases in rent, in a single year. Some of that is the market, and I get that, but 30% 2022, 30% 2023, 10% 2024, that's greed. Those are real number that a friend of mine was subjected to, and you can't sue the landlord because, you need the reference. I don't care who you are, if you have to do a 30%, 30%, 10% increase, that's not the market, you either badly F'd up charging them the right rate, or, you're driving a share price. I don't really want to talk about housing, it's very complex, and how to do fairly handle low income, and disability, so best to leave it, but there is certainly a lot of abuse with housing.

There was a case where a bunch of truckers sued about overtime based on the plain reading of a statement. This is the same issue, the comma is not entirely clear because, the comma can be understood in multiple ways. Let's not argue which understanding is correct because it doesn't matter, the writing is sloppy, and leaves the intent open.

If COVID was the reason, everything increased in price due to supply systems having strain, since the strain is gone, why haven't the prices gone down? I live in Ontario, Canada, in May, our grocery bill for the month was ~$2600 CAD, or ~$650 / week, which broke down to $400 for staple groceries, and, $250 for other stuff. I have a family of four, that means per week, we spent $162.5 / person. That is not a sustainable grocery bill, and we could buy cheaper food, and less food, but we're not in that situation as a requirement, but I know people who are. How much of that $650 could we really cut? I know the answer, we could get down to about $425 / week, but that would be a penny pinched, stretch food budget, which expanded to the month is $1700. The breakdown of that is $300 for staple, and $125 for other stuff, which includes TP, Paper Towel, Lysol Wipes, etc...

The solution to this problem is regulation, and caps because there's no reason groceries giants are generating record profits, while people are going broke just to live. The NDP party leader tried to fake care about this problem, and "grilled" the grocery CEOs, which of course did nothing, and was never going to, but on record the prices are high because they can be high. Obviously, you need to make a profit, but a reasonable profit. When a grocery CEO can brag about the record, "Scrooge McDuck" level of profit, while people are taking out loans to buy staples, that's a major, flashing, alarm ringing issue.

I overheard a mother at Walmart a few weeks back say (paraphrased): "We can only spend $100 on the groceries for the week.", what are you buying that will last a week for $100? Nothing, forget about eating meat, a pack of Pork Chops, the cheapest meat in the meat section (also my favourite), was $17. The chicken, drumsticks, were $19, so let's assume you wanted to have meat twice that week, that's $40 or 40% of that food budget. Factor in $20 TP, $9 milk, $10 eggs, and some bread $5. That's $80, that leaves $20, for everything else, and she had kids who needed lunch food. This is not a magic, unknown, we need regulation, and we needed it years ago.

I agree with that, and that will cause major problems at some point.

Which one is it? Is it in-depth assisted coding, or is it fly by the seat of pants and accept anything, style coding? That's why it has a bad name, it's not structured, careful, examined coding, all the time. It's great if you review it, and make sure it's safe, and does what you need, but if you don't? How many projects are being done that aren't being carefully watched and examined, that will have major issues because a developer accepted a block of code, that doesn't exactly do what they needed?

Obviously, the developer can write bad code, which is a different problem, and can be just as serious, if not more serious, but if AI isn't helping that, can worsen it, then why should we overly respect the concept, considering how it can be abused.

Recently, my company was going to buy a large Monday license block. No one read the privacy policy, which was so comically abusive, that even Episten would have pushed back. Here's the policy: https://monday.com/l/privacy/p...

It says they will hunt down any information they can find about you, regardless if you consent. They will sell your data, they will abuse privacy protections that exist at the federal level. They will use invasive trackers to bug your browser, and so on. It's actually one of the worst and most invasive policies I've read in a while. When we sent Monday my review, they tried every excuse to push back.

I don't know why, I'm in Canada, but why do you trust any company to hold your data, unless that company goes out of their way, to prevent the data access?

What would it matter if I run Emacs, unless I'm missing some point? Running a moderate model, 30 B parameters, you can easily max out an entry-level computer, and without some decent graphic horsepower, and system memory, you'll quickly be stuck in mud. If you want to be productive, with moderately sized models, you need the horsepower, it's a resource limitation concern.